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“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”
“The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.”
“Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.”
“You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one.”
“I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.”
“The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.”
“Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which...”
“Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?""Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.”
“Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper.”
“If it will give you any satisfaction in the end, I still care for you. Either there is no such thing as love, or the word does not mean what I have thought it to mean on many different occasions. I...”
“First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common cause which is greater than any one man. I believe that I serve such a cause, or I wou...”
“You were correct, for all men have within them both that which is dark and that which is light. A man is a thing of many divisions, not a pure, clear flame such as you once were. His intellect ofte...”
“But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterdaythose days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!”
“He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief pr...”
“Then the one called Raltariki is really a demon?" asked Tak."Yesand no," said Yama, "If by 'demon' you mean a malefic, supernatural creature, possessed of great powers, life span and the ability to...”
